Selling Students Short

Marketing-driven teen magazines are entering Canadian high schools in the hundreds of thousands. They all teach one lesson: spend

“Please rise for the national anthem.” A few students yawn, stretch and rub their eyes as if their beds ejected them into class. Eyelids gradually close, open, then close again. It’s early Friday morning at Port Perry High School in southeastern Ontario. Communications teacher Mr. Scuse introduces me as a “special treat” to the class; […]